Projects
Against Forgetting: Exploring poetic gestures of return(ing) to the land in Palestine. University of Antwerp
Cultivating Scripture in a Hellenistic World: Jewish Scholarship of the Pentateuch in Hellenistic-Roman Palestine and Alexandrian Homer Scholarship. KU Leuven
This project investigates the development of Jewish scholarship of the Pentateuch in Hellenistic-Roman Palestine in the wake of Alexandrian scholarship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This project focuses on the attitude of Alexandrian scholars of the homeric epics and Jewish scholars of the Pentateuch towards the authorship, narrative consistency, and textual fluidity of their base texts. The first step in this research will be to demonstrate ...
Stimulating film and media in Palestine. The enhancement of the media studies bachelor and the development of a film making minor at the Media Department of the Al Quds University. University of Antwerp
Fabric of life. The infrastructure of settler colonialism in Palestine Ghent University
Taking stock from literature on urban studies, settler colonialism and political economy, the dissertation looks at the histories and geographies of infrastructure networks (electricity and roads) to explore spatial modalities of settler colonialism and uneven development in Palestine. In particular it studies how infrastructures are co-produced and governed and how they advance political and socioe-conomic segregation and inequality in ...
Envisioning an alternative Future for the dispossessed in the Middle East and North Africa A study of property conflicts in Palestine, Morocco, and Tunisia Ghent University
In this project, I aim to tackle the growing trend of studying the issue of dispossession and property conflicts by bringing the MENA region into the discussion. The MENA region has a significant contribution to make to this issue. New interest in the issue of dispossession has been revived in the decade following the Arab revolutions. Due to increasing urbanization, climate change, and political conflict, MENA has been experiencing several ...
Formulation of the human rights and human rights of the Palestine Country Portfolio 2022-2026, Pillar 1, Specific Objective 2. University of Antwerp
Contribution to the formulation of a project of Human Rights promotion in Palestine. University of Antwerp
Desk review and analysis with a HBRA lens of the identification documents of interventions foreseen in next cooperation programme between Belgium and Palestine (CP 2018-2022) University of Antwerp
Genetic analysis in consanguineous families from Palestine : a focus on Cystic Fibrosis and Osteogenesis Imperfecta Ghent University
Identifying disease causing mutations using Next Generation Sequencing in families originating from Palestine with an initial focus on Cystic Fibrosis and Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Consequently, carrier testing in the family members based on primer extension technology followed by realtime PCR, will be performed and implemented at the lab in the Birzeit University. In a second stage, we will investigate other genetic disorders.